Items
Details
Title
Shakspear's Seven Ages of Man.
Uniform title
As you like it. Selections
Variant title
Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man.
Created/published
London : J. T. Wood, [1840]
Description
2 cards ; 14.9 x 12 cm
Associated name
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. author.
Note
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Genre/form
Prints (visual works)
Item Details
Call number
FAST ACC 271260 (flat)
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: 2 small etched cards (149 × 119 mm) printed in gold; a little dust-soiling and surface wear, slightly affecting legibility, though sense recoverable. A charming early Victorian keepsake illustrating Shakespeare’s ‘Seven Ages of Man’ with accompanying text from the famous ‘All the world’s a stage’ monologue (As You Like It II.vii.138). In addition to each agehaving its own illustration, the artist has also cleverly etched the titles of Shakespeare’s works into a calligraphic representation of his name. The second card, titled identically, illustrates the quote with seven depictions of the same man, in each of the separate ages. It is unclear whether these cards were sold together or separately. They are early pieces from Joseph Thomas Wood (fl.1842–74) who, according to the British Book Trade Index, traded from this Curriers Hall Court address between 1842 and 1844. Jaggard, p. 288. COPAC and WorldCat together list the British Library only. Ordered from Simon Beattie, D 9328, 2019-07-24, Shakespeare and the Stage July 2019, item 25.